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So what timber is used on bridges and piers/ jettys then? Surely they last longer than 10yrs.....

Retaining wall post have rotted through. These are/were hardwood. About 10yrs old i think.

I thought that they would not rot because the are treated.

They did not have the blue makita blade in the tooth count I wanted

I purchased a blade from Bunnings, an " Irwin 20T Marathon " and it cuts faster than the 40T blade so all good. This blade has the alternate left/right grind on the teeth. From reading online a...

What timber do people think this is?

Its hard to rip. Pretty dense.

I am ripping old hardwood pallet timber. The saw blade in use now is a 40T. The sawdust is very fine, almost too fine. Like a chainsaw when the chain is blunt you get dust and not chips. So I...

Nothing yet. Right now I have too much other stuff on at the moment. I nearly pull the trigger on the cheapo 909 form masters, but held off. I have managed to salvage some reasonable bits of old...

lol, no. But I have a triton workcentre with planer attachment and a router table. I figure I can fit a 100mm cutter to the router table and edge joint that way, or with the planer attachment.
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Well I was hoping that I could run these through....



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Surely the Hafco is...

spokeshave,

What machine was that you had? Was it the HAFCO thicknesser?


I went to Masters and had a look at the 909 thicknesser. $297. I asked what happens if it was to break down etc. ...

If I had the funds, I would get a sprial helical cutter head machine hands down without a question.

Going to have a look in masters at their 909 thicknesser, which looks to be the old gmc brand...

yep, typical

yeah great mate. i would love a dewalt dw735. point me in the right direction. ohh wait they cost more than what i have to spend. but would love a shelix head too.

I see the masters 909 thicknesser for $300, bunnings ozito for $400, bunnings ryobi AP13AK $450 ( this model is a ap13ak, i read of only a ryobi ap13 on here. Maybe this is a newer model?)

Then...

So I have been thinking that owning a jointer and thicknesser could be a good idea. I could round up some free timber, be it fence palings or old timber pallets and run them through the machines to...

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Don't think I can get my arms all the way round it. Will take a picture in daylight tomorrow and post it here.

Yeah pretty much what I was thinking guys. But just thought I would ask.

I have a large spotted gum in the yard that might have to be cut down in the future as it is in the way of a planned house extension. Seems like
such a shame to just cut it down and take it to the...

Hi Gaza,

Yeah it sucks you have to buy that darn expensive gas. BOC, Coregas or Supagas are the ones you need to see. Gas flow rates around 12-15l per min.

Wire feed speed and voltage see...

Mig welding push or pull

Pull will give more peno. This is especially true with flux wires and metal cored wires. There is a saying, if it's got slag, drag.

Roger that was a good tip about the farmers fence, thanks.

Where to get wood for firewood for business? Farm paddock or is there an easier way?

So say I want to start choppin wood as a business to supply firewood. How do you go about finding the stuff? ...

WIA no longer manufacture machines in Australia as of around about this time.

Yep that is what to do.

Turn up the power more so that there is more arc force to keep the slag away and to penetrate and fuse the metal together. It will allow it to bridge both sides together...

Grahame,

I have not said that this is the correct way to do that fillet weld. I have only just suggested the person try the weld like I did in that photo. I too have had trouble in the past with...

Hmm yeah I had thought that too. I might just give them a good clean and cut some new gaskets as there was a break one of the gaskets.
I do not know it the break in the gasket was because of me...

My compressor is a 3 phase unit, twin cylinder. It runs perfect, builds up pressure etc no problems. But when running if I put my hand over the intake port/s I can feel back pressure. I can feel...

Try it this way. I have info on my website.
Arc welding a fillet

Peter

ER70S-6 is just a code for a standard or a range that the wire has to fall within.

But there is a lot more than just the chemical composition and the finished weld deposit to think about when...

I am going to get more welding instructions there, just need to find the time.

There is nothing wrong with an arc welder. it's just that it is much harder to learn how to arc weld than it is to mig weld. My cnc plasma table I arc welded up and it did not have the best welds on...

Yeah that's true too.

I will be welding up a frame to build myself a CNC router again.

Ch4is
Don't mean to spoil the party but it's best to bolt the thing together only. The heat will warp the **** out of it. Trust...

distractor
There are photos of gasless weld beads in this page here.
Gasless mig wire

That orange steel was about 2mm thick maybe, It was welded with a small gasless mig welder using Kiswel...

They say it's the number one low hydrogen welding rod. Smoother running than the more well known WIA 16TC's.

Photo 2 shows the angles for the fillet..They are way too sharp. The sharper you go away from perpendicular the less penetration of the electrode.Somewhere around 70 degrees or 20 off perpendicular...

I know it is not a vertical up, but it is with a Kobe RB-26 2.6mm rod.

How to arc weld a horizontal fillet joint

Distractor,

On that last photo with the Satincraft rod at the top and the RB-26 at the bottom, did you weld the kobe rod first? Then while it was still hot did you weld the Cigweld rod behind it?

This is the one tecmen welding helmet

Ahh, I just checked. No mine is a Medalist. My head strap looks the same as the broken one in the picture that was posted.

My in law has a medalist, maybe they is why I'm confused with the...

hang on a minute, my does have an adjustable knob on the side as well.

Only has switches, see the picture at the bottom of the page here:
Auto darkening welding helmets

Can't argue with 35 bucks though. Mine seemed okay with mig and stick, never used it on tig or any sort of pulse equipment.

If you can get them use proper contact tips that are for aluminium welding.

Binzel have them, OTC have them, Tweco I think do. Bernard do not. For them use the 1.4mm tips with 1.2mm wire.
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Yep that would probably make sense as ally is something like 6 times more affected by heat (could not think of the right word).

Well when you do a single pass, if you go back over it again as I...

Is it value for money to have disposable gas canisters or not?

Being smart here, but you don't see any workshops using those disposable canisters.
And I don't know how much weld you could get out...

Well what is the cost of a spool gun, vs the new liner and rollers etc.

I would for the peace of mind (wire feeding) get a spool gun. Downside is that they only hold those 4" diameter type...

Geez I just give them away. Why stuff around over that when you can just give the guys a few rods then if he comes back add $5 bucks to the price of the machine? If he buys it?

Keep the customer...